Below you will find an extensive list of the work that went into MorphOS 3.6.
Please note that this is just an overview and does not mention or explain every new feature.
 
MorphOS 3.6 boot.img Changes

The following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made between the 3.5 and 3.6 release of MorphOS to the ROM (boot.img) based components.

hid.class

  • sensors.library API support for HID joysticks, enabling all controls for games supporting the new input API
  • Fixed potential issues with (de)initialization

Emulation

  • Improved FPU emulation compatibility

Exec

  • Fixed Cause() to always call the interrupt vector under Forbid()

SFS

  • Fixed writing to files larger than 2GiB
  • Avoid harmless buffer overrun with larger partitions

I2c

  • Speed optimizations

Intuition

  • Fixed screen background handling when effects were used
  • Fixed a rare case of not being able to disable blanker when having 2 graphics cards and one card not plugged to a monitor
  • Ensure the blanker screen gets invisible while disposing the MUI password lock app
  • Fixed a trashed display bug when a 'None' blanker was selected

Keylargo

  • Laptops with ADB keyboards can now also be reset using the Fn, Left Alt, Enter key combo

SATA

  • Don´t try to access any of the ATA registers if the SATA registers report that no drive is present
  • Fixed a sign extension issue which caused any data transfer with more than 256 sectors after LBA 2147483648 (0x80000000) to fail

Poseidon

  • Fixed a stack under-run issue

Powerbook

  • Upped the shutdown temperature a bit. Fans now both blow at the same speed

Quark

  • Fixed the alignment exception handler to work on PPC64.

Sensors

  • Reduced notification latency
  • Fixed a potential crash at CloseLibrary

Temperature

  • Increased update frequency
MorphOS 3.6 Disk Changes

Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made to the disk based components of MorphOS. While not mentioned for every component translations were updated for most of them. Also various cosmetic fixes were applied here and there.

Ambient

  • Various fixes for issues with panels
  • Added Reggae image decoding
  • Redesigned requesters not to fail with very long paths
  • Now tries resolving relative paths in settings to absolute ones
  • Fixed several potential zero-page reads

Applications/Diskspeed

  • Fixed a memory trash on quit

Applications/Elements

  • Updated names and symbols of elements 112 (Copernicium), 114 (Flerovium) and 116 (Livermorium)
  • Updated atomic weight information for elements 112 to 118

Applications/GfxSpeed

  • Various benchmarking fixes
  • Fixed a memory trash on quit

Applications/Jalapeno

  • Workaround for drives that do not report a media type

Applications/Jukebox

  • Various bug fixes

Applications/Kryptos

  • Fixed crash when image file is not available

Applications/LCD Monitor Test

  • Fixed a memory trash on quit

Applications/Odyssey

  • Updated Odyssey to 1.23

Applications/SCANdal

  • Store metadata in saved images using new Reggae API

Applications/RemoteShell

  • Fixed the task name of the SSHCON´s server process
  • Redesigned the connect panel and settings to be keyboard friendly
  • Cleaned up the menu
  • Simplified and streamlined preferences
  • Enabled MUI snapshot functionality
  • UTF-8 mode can now be disabled
  • Bundled with OpenSSL 1.0.1g and reject weak DH groups patch

Applications/Scribble

  • Added an ENCODING parameter to the command line and the ARexx OPEN command
  • Added notifications when a file is externally modified
  • Folding and function lister support when editing E files
  • Nicer block selection
  • vastly improved CVS support
  • Abbreviations
  • Bookmarks
  • Fixes in split view mode
  • Fixes in auto-save functionality
  • Various other bug fixes and user interface improvements

Applications/ShowGirls

  • Removed the 2048 pixels limitation where possible
  • Fixed the 3D view

Applications/Sketch

  • Fixed a bug when changing pens

Applications/Synergy New

A Synergy protocol client application which lets you control the MorphOS machine using a mouse/keyboard connected to a Windows or Mac OS X machine.

Applications/Transfer

  • Support for "chmod" added
  • Keep alive setting per server
  • Fixed sftp rename
  • Fixed file size display on host´s side
  • Fixed a crash on exit
  • Various other bug fixes and improvements

Applications/VNCServer New

VNC protocol server application.

Applications/VPDF

  • Localization support
  • Fixed various "Poppler" related memory leaks and buffer overruns

Applications/ZVNC

  • Fixed to work with ADB touchpads

C/Newer New

Newer command - compares versions of two files against each other

C/Netconfig

  • Fixed not to fail on already configured interfaces

C/UnRAR

  • Fixed not to crash on machines without AltiVec

C/Uptime

  • Changed to use SYSTEMINFOTYPE_UPTIMETICKS to be consistent with other tools

C/Version

  • Sped up parsing version information from MOS binaries

Classes/MUI/Chart.mcc

  • Various improvements
  • Fixed buffer under-runs

Classes/MUI/Powerterm.mcc

  • New UTF mode handling, does not require ttengine.library anymore
  • UTF-8 clipboard support

Classes/MUI/Scintilla.mcc

  • Folding improvements in the E lexer
  • Keyboard handling fixes

Classes/MUI/Wpasupplicant.mcc

  • Bumped to enable the Wifi.sbar
  • Better password handling
  • Prioritize networks when joining so that the most recently picked one has higher priority
  • Fixed a problem with adding WLANs

Classes/Reggae/Streams/http.stream

  • Redirections to URI schemes other than "http:" are no longer treated as relative URI-s
  • Added support for posting raw data

Classes/Screenbar/Netlamps.sbar

  • Improved shared signal handling
  • Device information (line rate, MTU, ...) are now always updated when changing the preferences

Classes/Screenbar/Wifi.sbar New

Wireless network status screenbar module.

Classes/USB/Xbox360

  • Fixed analog stick directions up

Devs/Audiomodes/I2s

  • Support for the PowerBook/iBook microphone
  • Automatically switches between headphones/line out and internal speakers when playing

Devs/Keymaps

  • Renamed pc105_bg keymap to pc104_bg
  • Added pc104_colemak keymap (English Colemak Layout)
  • Added pc105_ch2 keymap (Swiss German Layout)
  • Fixes in pc105_ch1 keymap (Swiss French Layout)

Devs/Monitors/Radeon

  • Added R400 support
  • Added fan control support for Radeon X800 and Radeon 9800XT
  • Limited R100/R200 3D blitter ops to 2048x2048

Devs/Networks/802.11/Atheros5000

  • Fixed several race conditions in the driver
  • Reduced binary size

Devs/Networks/802.11/B43 New

Driver for the internal wireless chip found in supported Apple computers

L/SMBFS New

MorphOS SMBFS port including 64-bit I/O support.

Libs/ac97mixer.library

  • Fixed Volume.sbar´s mouse wheel handling

Libs/commodities.library

  • ParseIX: Added support for MOUSE_FORTHPRESS rawkey code

Libs/filesysbox.library

  • Signal leak fixed
  • Improvements for network filesystems

Libs/ftp.library

  • Added "chmod"
  • Fixes in date parsing

Libs/hashtable.library New

General purpose hash table implementation

Libs/lowlevel.library

  • Emulates old-style joysticks for new-API devices like the Xbox 360 pad

Libs/lua.library

  • Fixed a bug in read_line´s LF handling
  • Fixed io.open() access modes behaviour to be consistent with other systems.

Libs/netconfig.library

  • Increased the DHCP retry frequency

Libs/sqlite.library New

Shared SQLite 3 library

Libs/Tinygl/Drivers/R300

  • Added R400 support
  • Added support for BitmapToTexture

Libs/Tinygl

  • Fixed an off-by-one rendering bug in glDrawPixels()
  • Added glTexImage1D() and glTexSubImage1D() to the library function table.
  • Fixed glBitmap() to work with drivers that do not support 16bpp RGBA textures.
  • If a GLUT app receives a CTRL-C signal, it will quit its main loop
  • Fixed glGet*() with GL_TEXTURE_MATRIX to return the correct matrix.

MUI

  • MUIA_Dirlist_NumFiles was not reset when changing directories

Network/WirelessManager

  • Added signal strength information
  • Bugfixes

Prefs/Monitors

  • Added 2560x1080 and 2560x1440 default modes
  • Enabled on laptops

Prefs/Network

  • Connect and Forget buttons for the wireless networks
  • Removed the useless 3rd DNS configuration
  • Improvements and fixes in Advanced Settings panel

Prefs/Users

  • Reworked the front page
  • Fixed the default settings

S

  • Added legacy shell script replacements for SPat, DPat and PCD

Tools/HDConfig

  • Fixed to handle drives up to 2TB

Tools/IWizard

  • When updating MorphOS, do not overwrite OWB if a user already has a more recent version installed
  • No longer replaces FontConfig settings on update

Tools/Mounter

  • Better IceFS detection
  • Fixed LowCyl/HighCyl mountlist export on large drives

Utilities/Fragment

  • Fixed a 'Wipeout' hit when quitting the application

Utilities/Multiview

  • Fixes in AGuide support
  • Fixed memory trash on exit
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